Steam-condenser



H. 0. BAKER AND W. P. COOK. STEAM CONDENSER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 13, 1918. 1,384,737. Patented July 19, 1921.

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HARTLEY 0. BAKER AND WILLIAM P. COOK, yOF PUEBLO, COLORADO, ASSIGNORS TO THE BAKER STEAM MOTOR CAR AND MANUFACTURING CO., INC., OF PUEBLO,

COLORADO.

Specification of Letters Patent.

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Patented July 19, 1921.

T 0 'all w hom t may concern Be it known that we, HARTLEY O. BAKER and WILLIAM P. COOK, citizens of the United States, residing at Pueblo, in the county of Pueblo and State of Colorado, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Steam-Condensers; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to steam condensers and the object of the invention is to provide an improved condenser especially adapted forsteam automobiles and motor boats but which may also be applied to steam trucks and even to stationary engine condensers.

The object of the invention is the provision of a condenser unit composed of a series of parallel plates so arranged and formed as to provide alternate steam and air passages of novel form, to eflicientlyr condense the steam and provide for large capacity.

lWith these objects in view the invention consists in the improved construction, arrangement and combination of the parts of a device of the character specified, which will be hereinafter fully described and afterward speciiically claimed.

In order that the construction and operation thereof1 may be readily comprehended, we have illustrated an approved embodiment of our invention in the accompanying drawings, and will now proceed to fully describe the same in connection with said drawings, in which- Figure 1 represents a diagrammatic plan view of our improved system,

Fig. 2, a view, in plan, of a primary condenser, part of one side being broken away showing part of the interior construction in section,

Fig. 3, a vertical, longitudinal, sectional view on the plane indicated by the broken away section line 8-3 of Fig. 2,

Fig. 4, a transverse, vertical sectional vew on the plane indicated by the broken line k-i of Fig. 2.

Fig. 5, a transverse section on the line 5-5 of Fig. 1, and

Fig. 6, a rear view of the condenser proper or main condenser, on the line 6--6 of Fig. 1.

Like reference characters mark the same parts wherever the a ear in a' luralit of the figures of the draliidings. p y

Referring specifically to the drawings, and. particularly to Fig. 1, 15 indicates'the engine, which in this system is mounted on the rear aXle 16 of the c ar, and 17 is the exhaust pipe from the engine which leads to the rear end of the primary condenser 18, which is open at front and rear to permit the air to pass through, especially when the cai' is in motion, to more quickly cool the steam passing through as hereinafter described.

To increase and facilitate the speed of passage of the air through the primary condenser, we may employ a power fan, as at 19, in Figs. 2 and 3, which fan may be driven from any suitable power, such as an electric motor, or a steam exhaust fan, by suitable belting and pulley, said fan 19 being located in the open forward end lof the primary condenser, which is iared or fltiriel shaped, to gather in the air, as shown a From the primary condenser 18 the eX- haust steam, partly cooled, passes through a pipe 21 to the condenser proper 22 said pipe being finned, as at 23, to increase its cooling capacity to still further cool the steam on its way to the condenser proper.

The steam condenser 22, as shown, is in the form of an ordinary automobile radiator, of honeycomb type.

The steam from the finned pipe 21 passes through a. steam hose, as at 24, into and through a series of pipes 25, 26, 27 and 28, into the shell of the condenser proper, the pipes 25 and 26 discharging at one side of a: partition 29, and the pipes 2T and 28 at the other side of said partition, which divides the shell of the condenser into two chambers throu'gli which the steam passes.

There may be more or less than four of these pipes and there may be a. number of partitions to suit the number of pipes, the object being to divide the steam entering the condenser into a number of streams to prevent the discharge. of the whole volume of steam on one point thereof, which has heretofore been found very objectionable in that it overheated that part receiving the great volume of steam and often melted fusible parts.

The steam, after being cooled in the con- Vis carried back to the water tank of the envine. b Referring particularly to Figs. 2, 3 and 4, our primary condenser 18 comprises a' rectangular hollow body in which are formed passageways for the steam between vertical, longitudinal sheets 31 and 32, inV

pairs at a short distance apart joined, at their rear ends to close that end of the vpassageways, by the rear end 33 of the body and. closed at their front terminals at 84, the exhaust pipe 17 communicating with the u peredges of the passageways, as at 85 (F ig. 3) at the rear ends thereof, and the pipe 2l leading from the primary condenser communicating with the lower portions of the passagewaysin a like manner as at 36. The upper and lower edges of the sheets 31and 32 are secured to the top and bottom of thecondenser 18, which has an elongated open 'endedV casing, and said sheets divide the air passage. l

`The sheets are sinuous and parallel as shown inv Fig. 2, to make the steam passageways ltortuous and insure greater contact with the inner surface of the sheets by the steam, and the pairs forming the several passage-ways are corrugated transversely Vthroughout the sinuous portions to insure further Contact of the steam with the walls, as best shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2. The sinuous portions or waves are of relatively largey curvature and size to give the air and steama gentle sinuous motion while the corrugationsare small toV give the fluid a rapid transverse deflection from side to side as sarnepass. through the sinuous portions.

Besides lfacilitating the contact of the 4Liss-infn' passing steam with the interior 'surfaces of the walls thereof, this construction further facilitates the cooling of the walls of-the passageways by causing greater contact therewith of the air passing through; the primary condenser. y

`The passage of the exhaust steam through the primary condenser, the linnedfpipe,4 and' the condenser proper, constructed as ldescribed, thoroughly cools and'condenses it, as we have proved by long experiment, the effect being more complete and sure than with any form of condenser heretofore available.V

The Vutility and simplicityjof our inventionwill be evident from the foregoing and we desire to be understood that changes and variations may be made from the specificVV In testimony whereof We have signediour names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. V YHARTLEY O. BAKER.

yWILLIAM P. COOK.Y l Witnesses:

' PAULINE S. BROWN, SARA MoKENzIE. 

